"Right, and working-class white populations are caught in this peculiar place. They could look at the wealthy persons or corporations or donors who were actually causing policies that were worsening their lives, or they could look at the people they believed were taking away their resources. And they chose, electorally, to look at the latter—and that's hurting nearly everybody."
In a 2019 Vox article, Sean Illing interviews Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland.
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